Lex Fridman has recorded five conversations with Elon Musk, starting in 2019 when the show was still the MIT Artificial Intelligence Podcast. The later episodes run long: #400 is about 2.5 hours and #438, recorded with the Neuralink team, runs more than eight hours. Dates and topics below come from the official lexfridman.com episode pages.
| Episode | Released | Runtime |
|---|---|---|
| #438 — Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | ~8h+ | |
| #400 — War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | ~2h 27m | |
| #252 — SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | ~2h 30m+ | |
| #49 — Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | ~1h 30m | |
| #18 — Tesla Autopilot | ~1h+ |
An 8-hour-plus episode with Musk and Neuralink's DJ Seo, Matthew MacDougall and Bliss Chapman, plus Noland Arbaugh, the first human to receive a Neuralink implant.
Musk's fourth Lex Fridman conversation: war and human nature, the Israel–Hamas and Ukraine wars, China, xAI's Grok, aliens, AI regulation and open source, the X algorithm and Tesla Optimus.
Covers SpaceX human spaceflight, Starship, colonizing Mars, Dogecoin and crypto, Tesla Autopilot and FSD, the Tesla Bot, and advice for young people.
Musk's second Lex Fridman conversation, from the show's Artificial Intelligence Podcast era: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot and the 'pale blue dot'.
Musk's first conversation with Lex Fridman, focused on Tesla Autopilot, recorded for the MIT Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
Five times: #18 (April 12, 2019), #49 (November 12, 2019), #252 (December 28, 2021), #400 (November 9, 2023) and #438 (August 2, 2024).
Episode #438, "Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity" (August 2, 2024), features Musk plus Neuralink's DJ Seo, Matthew MacDougall, Bliss Chapman and patient Noland Arbaugh. Episode #49 also covers Neuralink.
Yes for #400 and #438 — lexfridman.com publishes official transcripts, linked on the episode entries below.
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